Nov. 12 headlines: Food Truck Friday has a new home! Two, actually
When plans for a development on the Common Market/Food Truck Friday lot surfaced recently, many people wondered where the popular food truck gathering would move to. Now we know.
Starting next spring, Food Truck Friday will have two new homes, according to a report from the Observer’s Ely Portillo: At a Mecklenburg County-owned parcel at South Tryon and Kingston Avenue, and at the Light Factory, an art center on Central Avenue and Nandina Street in Plaza Midwood.
Not only does this keep food trucks in South End (awesome), but a second location would, in theory, cut down on the sometimes ridiculously long lines (also awesome).
“I never expected it to last four years when I started it,” said Gaines Brown, the organizer of FTF who started toying with the idea of a food truck gathering spot when he was laid up after surgery in 2011.
This week is the last Food Truck Friday event before it goes on winter hiatus.
Read more about the history of Food Truck Friday in Ely’s article, but mostly get excited for double FTF in the spring.
In other headlines …
– Olde Mecklenburg Brewery got some serious German love yesterday when its Mecktoberfest beer won a gold medal in the Germanstyle Märzen category of the European Beer Star competition. It’s the first time a Charlotte-based brewery has won, and since 2011 only German breweries had medaled in the category, according to a release from the brewery.
To celebrate, OMB will be pouring half pint samples of Mecktoberfest in the Brauhaus starting at noon on Friday, Nov. 13.
– Learn more about the proposed 2.5-mile, $150 million extension of the Charlotte streetcar at a public meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. today at Hawthorne Lane United Methodist Church.
– In his first local interview since 2011, Elevation Church pastor Steven Furtick said revealing how much money he makes and how much of it he gives away would be unfair to his family and would violate Jesus’ call to be discreet about donations.
– Elijah Aschbrenner, the inspirational young boy who Cam Newton surprised by showing up at his Halloween party, died Tuesday after battling a rare form of cancer.
– The Hornets beat the New York Knicks 95-93 at home last night after a game-winning shot by the Knicks did not beat the buzzer.
Photo: Diedra Laird/Charlotte Observer
This story was originally published November 11, 2015 at 8:04 PM with the headline "Nov. 12 headlines: Food Truck Friday has a new home! Two, actually."